Andreas Bergh is associate professor at the department of economics at Lund university, and has previously been a research fellow at the Ratio institute and a visiting scholar at Harvard university. His research includes welfare state economics and institutional economics.

Among the questions that Andreas Bergh tries to answer with his research:

What explains variation in welfare state size among countries, and how does the welfare state affect economic outcomes?

Where do social norms come from and how do they change?

How are people in developing countries affected by economic and social globalization?

What explains growth differences among rich countries and how are efficiency promoting reforms implemented?